THE MICaO-OllGANISMS WHICH OCCUU IN SEPTICEMIA. 7 5 



than compensating for the increasing number of affections in 

 which they are shown to be present, and which are attributed by 

 some to their causation.^ Thus it may well be said that the 

 study of these organisms has acquired a vastly increased and 

 unexpected importance. 



The observations here recorded have been made in the course 

 of a more extended investigation on septic and other infective 

 diseases, carried on during some years past at the Brown 

 Institution, Wandsworth Eoad. 



August^ 1881. 



' The latest instances are, in malarial fever, Klebs and Tommasi Crudeli, 

 'Atti d. Accad. d. Line.,' v, f. 1, December, 1880. J. Brauliclit, ' Vir- 

 chow's Arcliiv ' for April, 1881, found in tap water, during an epidemic 

 of typhoid fever, a minute Bacillus, apparently identical with that pre- 

 viously observed in the blood of typhoid patients by Klebs and Eberth, 

 and which, when cultivated, was found to be infective. More particularly 

 too, in tuberculosis aud scrofulous affections, as recorded in an important 

 work published at Stuttgart last year by Dr. Max Schiiller ; to which may 

 be added the Spirillum of relapsing fever, which was demonstrated very 

 completely by Dr. Vandyke Carter at the late International Medical Con- 

 gress, previous accounts of which had been somewhat imperfect. 



